Top: a slice of sapin-sapin sold at a market in California; Bottom: sapin-sapin sprinkled with latik
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Course | Dessert or snack |
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Place of origin | Philippines |
Serving temperature | Room temperature |
Main ingredients | Glutinous rice |
100 kcal | |
Sapin-sapin is a layered glutinous rice and coconut dessert in Philippine cuisine. It is made from rice flour, coconut milk, sugar, water, and coloring with coconut flakes sprinkled on top.
Sapin means "layers" while sapin-sapin means "layered" and the dessert is recognizable for its layers, each colored separately. It has been referred to as "a blancmange of several colored layers, sweetened and flavored with coconut milk".